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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Add a WYSIWYG or Rich Text HTML Editor to the HTML Component

Please add a WYSIWYG HTML editor to the HTML component. Currently, there is only the option to edit in raw html. If you add a reference to an editor like TinyMCE (https://www.tiny.cloud), it would enable us to edit the contents of an HTML componen...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Under review

We need an alternative to the Hashicorp vault

I continue to run into more customers that demand a vault other than Hashicorp as a way to securely store credentials for the configuration.yaml file. Previously, I opened this idea, but it was rejected: https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/INSTANA-I-271 I...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Not under consideration

'Disable Stage' Scheduling Function

We like to use the Disable stage function during times when we process consumption feeds and we want to hold staging calculations for one big calculation.  That said we have on occasion forgot to enable the stage calculations before the end o...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Planned for future release

Enhancing RabbitMQ monitoring by decoupling queue metrics from node affiliation or implementing automated metric udates once a queue is reloacted to a diffrent RabbitMQ node

For RabbitMQ in a multi-node environment, Instana message queue metrics are tied to specific nodes, causing issues when message queues are relocated to different nodes due to node failures. This leads to failed updates and no data representation i...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

Sound notification when Datalink connector finishes running

As a Datalink Admin or Apptio Admin, I'd like the ability to opt-in to a sound notification that's triggered when a Datalink connector status resolves (either Success or Failed). I'll know it's complete when I run a connector from Datalink, then h...
12 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Can't use REGEX in ACCOUNT as a filter when creating Virtual Machine and Volume groups

You can't use REGEX in ACCOUNT filter when creating Virtual Machine group. Customers have hundreds of accounts and need to roll one by one clicking. This slow down the management process and lead to human errors.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Organize validation rules

When having a lot of validation rules, the list becomes quite chaotic and it is difficult to find the correct validation rule when a user receives a validation error message. Some proposed improvements: * Show the validation rule id in the list....
over 2 years ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

ITM for Omegamon (TEPS functionality) should support passphrases

ITM 6.3.0 FP7 SP2/SP5 does not support passphrases. Currently ITM limitations are as follows: 1) up to 50 characters 2) For Distributed system, the acceptable characters are as following - For tacmd login those characters are between the brackets ...
over 3 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 9 Planned for future release

Being able to select a specific month to drop IT Planning files

Being able to select a specific month to drop IT Planning files vs only having it send to January and replacing monthly files. When loading files from ITP to CT would like the flexibility to have it drop in different months. For example Jan – drop...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Not under consideration

Improving Resiliency #4: avoid impacts to r3batch when SAP have enabled trace to BTCOPTIONS BATCHTRACE_MODULE / BAPI_XMI_LOGON

TWS was unable to establish a RFC connection with SAP and submit jobs when a trace was enabled to BTCOPTIONS BATCHTRACE_MODULE / BAPI_XMI_LOGON in SAP system. Through the logs, the error returned was limited to "EEWO0950W the RFC user is already l...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration